Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses

Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses by delecti on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @01:09PM (#43848098)

That setting can be fairly sticky. Mine has stayed off since I initially disabled it, shortly after they added the "feature". I have no idea why it's not sticky for you. Maybe they fuck with me less because I have premium?

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses by lolinder on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @03:07PM (#43849424)

I don't have premium and it's sticky for me but only on a single computer, I have to reset it if I switch computers or browsers. Same with dark mode. So maybe it's stored as a cookie and they wipe their cookies?

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses by wpm on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @04:08PM (#43850085)

Yes, it's stored client-side in a cookie.

Surely you don't expect YouTube, a company that doesn't store any data at all actually, to be able to store a single boolean value somewhere in your account, do you? This would be impossible for a company as broke and small as YouTube.

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses by malfist on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @06:57PM (#43851630)

YouTube is a small and scrapy startup. Sometimes they have to move fast and break things

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Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses by knome on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @08:36PM (#43852354)

On the bright side, you could probably write something to just always reset that cookie before loading the site.

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